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One Million Downloads for JPL Space Images App
Space Images, the mobile image application from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that puts visuals direct from space missions at users' fingertips, has reached 1 million downloads.
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Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer for more than looking at hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan and dirt in Saturn's rings.
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Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds
Citizen scientists are invited to help astronomers by tagging clouds and holes in cosmic images from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes.
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From Cassini for the Holidays: A Splendor Seldom Seen
Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years, has delivered another glorious view of the planet Saturn and its rings.
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Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves
A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space.
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NASA GRAIL Twins Complete Their Moon Impact
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have received confirmation that the twin GRAIL spacecraft have, as planned, completed their impact into the moon.
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Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact
The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate.
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NASA to Provide Commentary as Grail Moon Mission Ends
NASA will provide live commentary of the scheduled lunar surface impacts of its twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft beginning at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) Monday, Dec. 17.
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Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth
Scientists have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012.
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NASA Probes Prepare for Mission-Ending Moon Impact
Twin NASA spacecraft that spent this year studying the moon's internal structure and composition are being prepared for a controlled descent and impact on the moon on Dec. 17.
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NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Planetary Exploration
Fifty years ago, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet.
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Cassini Spots Mini Nile River on Saturn Moon
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of the Nile River.
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Mars Rover Self-Portrait Shoot Uses Arm Choreography
A self-portrait of the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity stitches together dozens of images by the camera at the end of the rover's arm.
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Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward Monday, Dec. 10, approaching an area called "Yellowknife Bay," where researchers will choose a rock to drill.
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NASA to Host Dec.13 Telecon on Twin Probes' Mission-Ending Moon Impact
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. EST) Thurs., Dec. 13, to provide an overview of events leading up to twin spacecraft to impact the moon's surface.
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Students' Toss Wins Top Honors at JPL Competition
Monroe Magnet Middle School, Inglewood, Calif., claimed victory at the annual Invention Challenge, held today at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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What is Creating Gullies on Vesta?
Something is forming intriguing gullies on the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are trying to figure out what could be creating these features.
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Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is helping to find the rarest and largest of galaxy groupings in the universe.
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Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
Pictures from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show scars on the surface of the Red Planet where discarded pieces of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft hit the ground.